You want evidence that Gingrich will be seeking a bigger national stage, perhaps as RNC chair or 2012 candidate? He's put aside his usual "ideas" schtick to engage in some good, ol' fashioned hate and division.
O'REILLY: OK, now, the culture war. I know you've been flying around the country, and you're doing stuff. In the last three or four days, this is really nasty stuff. I mean, you know, hyper -- we're gonna show you some of the video. A woman getting a cross smashed out of her hand. We had a church in Michigan invaded by gay activists. We're gonna show you the video on Monday of that -- we have exclusively. We had a guy in Sacramento fired from his job. We had boycotts called on restaurants.
I mean, it is getting out of control, very few days after the election. How do you assess that?
GINGRICH: Look, I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion. And I think if you believe in historic Christianity, you have to confront the fact. And, frank -- for that matter, if you believe in the historic version of Islam or the historic version of Judaism, you have to confront the reality that these secular extremists are determined to impose on you acceptance of a series of values that are antithetical, they're the opposite, of what you're taught in Sunday school.
Gingrich, he of the multiple wives, multiple affairs, the divorce papers as his first wife recovered from cancer, yadda yadda yadda, is now going to talk about "Sunday school"? Yup, homeboy wants to move up, and he has to play the Palin/Huckabee/Dobson game in order to bring the crazies along.
Of course, the GOP's big problem remains. They've demonized gays, blacks, Latinos, immigrants, Asians, northeasterners, Californians, San Franciscoans, people in Hollywood, Muslims, atheists, latte sippers, Volvo drivers, arugula eaters, city dwellers, youngsters, and women.
Railing against the gays and "secular fascists" may help get you the RNC chairmanship or the 2012 nomination, but it does nothing to solve the GOP's fundamental problems. So hopefully Newt keeps it up!
Update: Weird. This thing posted to the diaries. Must've been a tech glitch.